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On sale -50%Take note: these are not suites taken from Poulenc's ballets Les Biches and Les Animaux modèles. Les Biches, first performed in 1924 by the Ballets Russes de Paris, is a particularly "facetious" score of Poulenc's, miles from his deeper works; we could even call it light music, in a vein which would later be addressed by Jean Françaix. Of course, "light" doesn't mean "easy" and Poulenc's score teems with imagination, harmonic curiosities, orchestral colours, and references and allusions running from Chopin to Mozart, from Stravinski to music-hall.
As in Les Biches, the composer made his own theme for the ballet Les Animaux modèles of 1942, and here is its Suite. It's in the same vein that Poulenc uses a much more ambitious orchestra, but the Parisian tone predominates. Borrowing from La Fontaine, Poulenc makes his animals into human characters, so the grasshopper becomes an old ballerina, the ant an old provincial aunt, the lovelorn lion a pimp, and death an elegant woman, like a masked Duchess. Here too the borrowings and allusions are legion: including to himself but also to Satie, Saint-Saëns and many others, while in Le Lion, he sneaks the line "Vous n’aurez pas l’Alsace et la Lorraine"[You won't have Alsace and Lorraine] into the score, clearly addressed to the occupiers of Paris who had just taken part in the performance of a ballet by Lifar at the Opéra in Paris. The album closes with the 1947 Sinfonietta, quite unique among Poulenc's works: facetious and light, to be sure, but also coloured by potential drama that looms behind each passage. A most welcome programme. © SM/Qobuz
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Les biches Suite, FP 36b (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Les animaux modèles Suite, FP 111 (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Sinfonietta, FP 141 (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
Album review
Take note: these are not suites taken from Poulenc's ballets Les Biches and Les Animaux modèles. Les Biches, first performed in 1924 by the Ballets Russes de Paris, is a particularly "facetious" score of Poulenc's, miles from his deeper works; we could even call it light music, in a vein which would later be addressed by Jean Françaix. Of course, "light" doesn't mean "easy" and Poulenc's score teems with imagination, harmonic curiosities, orchestral colours, and references and allusions running from Chopin to Mozart, from Stravinski to music-hall.
As in Les Biches, the composer made his own theme for the ballet Les Animaux modèles of 1942, and here is its Suite. It's in the same vein that Poulenc uses a much more ambitious orchestra, but the Parisian tone predominates. Borrowing from La Fontaine, Poulenc makes his animals into human characters, so the grasshopper becomes an old ballerina, the ant an old provincial aunt, the lovelorn lion a pimp, and death an elegant woman, like a masked Duchess. Here too the borrowings and allusions are legion: including to himself but also to Satie, Saint-Saëns and many others, while in Le Lion, he sneaks the line "Vous n’aurez pas l’Alsace et la Lorraine"[You won't have Alsace and Lorraine] into the score, clearly addressed to the occupiers of Paris who had just taken part in the performance of a ballet by Lifar at the Opéra in Paris. The album closes with the 1947 Sinfonietta, quite unique among Poulenc's works: facetious and light, to be sure, but also coloured by potential drama that looms behind each passage. A most welcome programme. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:31
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: RTE National Symphony Orchestra Jean-Luc Tingaud
- Composer: Francis Poulenc
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2018 Naxos (P) 2018 Naxos
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